Electronics and Recycling

Electronics of all forms can be recycled, T. V' S, cell phones, digital cameras, monitors and laptops, printer ink cartridges as well.

With the release of new technology everyday, we have to be strategic with what we do with our old devices. They contains toxic materials that leak into our ground water contaminating it with lead, mercury, cadmium, flame retardants just to name a few. It is completely absurd to knowingly discard items that have toxic materials where they can be absorbed by  human beings, our precious children, animal, aquatic life and plants so necessary for our existence.

There are endless resources available these days for facilitating the recycling of electronics. There are buy backs and trade ins, donation programs for schools and overseas for underprivileged. Places like Staples and Best Buy have the collection kiosks where they ship in mass to recycling companies.

Printer ink cartridges

Despite our goals to have "PAPERLESS" the reality is that many of us still frequently print everyday. From boarding passes to driving directions. Printer cartridges are quite an expense for us. Hewlett-Packard is leading when it comes recycling. They are an industry giant. Their recycling plant in Tennessee will receives countless boxes of discarded cartridges, many form places like Staples and Best Buy. H.P.will disassemble, sort, drain remaining ink, melt and separate the gold from palladium. Finally the plastic is shredded, processed into pellets mixed with bottle flake to create new cartridges. The resulting numbers are impressive, H. P. estimates that since they established their recycling company in 2001 it has kept 511,000,000 objects out of landfills, over 39,000,000 cartridges have been recycled.

Thank you H. P. for your contribution in helping keep our environment healthy.
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/environment/product-recycling.html